Sword of Dawn

Hearing General Ranger's words, one of the controllers immediately activated the cylinder in front of him, and as the runes lit up, a set of projections in front of the cylinder was enlarged, showing the northernmost situation of the Linhai defense line: on the screen, more than a dozen A towering ancient tree is creaking and rising from the ground, striding forward with its "foot" composed of countless roots. There are bright runes floating on the branches of the ancient tree, forming an Layer upon layer of energy barriers, while a group of elves in short robes rode moonlight giant deer, followed closely behind the ancient tree, rushing towards the energy barrier in the distance that was on the verge of overload.

"The second batch of magisters has already set off, and sixteen ancient guardian trees are escorting them."

"How is the situation of the first batch of magisters? Are you out of trouble?"

The controller quickly reported: "Still trapped in the tunnel area, three people were polluted by the demonic tide and urgently needed treatment——The ancient guardian tree brought medicine and a healing pod, but I'm afraid it's too late."

General Ranger frowned tightly, and he looked at the forest sea outside the window—this forest sea was jointly built by humans and elves, and it was used to block and purify the corruption of the magic energy that continued to spread from the wasteland of Gondor.After 700 years of growth, the original magic seeds have now become a barrier that can cover the entire northern border, but in the face of the direct impact of the magic tide, can these brave and loyal ancient trees really survive?

In any case, the offline Sentinel Tower must be restarted.

"Let the ranger troops assemble again and wait for orders at Sentinel Heights. When the second batch of teams crosses the front line of Linhai, they will obliquely clear the aberrations around the Sentinel Tower from the east and west sides, and buy at least 10 minutes for the magisters to repair. , "General Ranger ordered loudly to his deputy, "This tower cannot be lost!!"

"Yes."

As soon as the subordinate's voice fell, the voice of the correspondent came from another direction: "General, the message from the Temple of Stars is from Her Majesty the Queen."

Queen?His Majesty has arrived at the Temple of Stars?Is the situation so dire?

General Ranger immediately responded as he walked towards the communication platform: "Connected."

The runes around the communication platform brightened up, and a holographic projection from the Temple of Stars appeared above the elves' unique cylindrical communicator—the elf queen Belsetia appeared in front of General Ranger, this majestic and beautiful woman The ruler of the city sat solemnly on the pale golden "Seat of Dominion", countless shimmering cables and pipes extended from the back of the seat, connecting a large number of ancient equipment around the queen, and the queen herself He stared at Lomar and said seriously: "Our communication with the entire northern region has been interrupted."

"Yes, Your Majesty," General Ranger lowered his head, "The communication system of the Great Wall was severely damaged in the first overload, and we are trying to fix it—but the most urgent task now is to restart Sentinel Tower No. [-]."

"how is the progress?"

"The first batch of emergency repair teams were attacked by aberrations and had to hide in the refuge tunnel. They are still trapped. The second batch of teams have just set off, and I have sent Ranger troops to buy time for them to repair," General Ranger said without any concealment. "The situation is not optimistic, but I can guarantee that the task will be completed."

"Very good," Queen Belsetia nodded slightly, "After the sentinel tower is repaired, select a group of the most elite rangers and jungle messengers, and I will send them to the north."

"Yes," General Ranger commanded, and asked casually, "Do you want to remind the kingdoms in the north?"

"The majestic wall is deteriorating faster than expected. This is a situation that threatens the entire world. Other kingdoms must be warned," the Elf Queen nodded. I need to get news from my hometown. In addition...it is also necessary to go to Ansu to confirm the situation there."

General Ranger was slightly taken aback: "The rumored resurrection of Gawain Cecil?"

"It's not just rumors—a high-level ranger who traveled abroad also sent a message directly to the Temple of Stars. That high-level ranger once joined the Northern Exploration Army and worked with Gawain Cecil for many years. He said that he had The authenticity of this matter has been confirmed.”

"A high-ranking ranger who once participated in the Northern Exploration Army and worked with Gawain for many years?" Lomar thought for a while when he heard this, "Soldering?"

"It's him."

"I see, his words should be credible."

General Ranger nodded. He has known Soldering for many years. Although the contact in the last seven centuries has not been very frequent, the elves are a race whose personality is difficult to change. Even if they do not contact him for a long time, they still believe that Solderin is still an honest Reliable Man - That respectable old friend never lied, except for the hair problem.

Communication hangs up.

Belsetia on the "Seat of Domination" let out a long breath, tapped the armrest of the golden seat lightly with her fingers, and the lights of the cable ducts spreading from behind her flickered, showing that the Queen is currently The mood is not calm.

She raised her head and looked around the brightly lit oval hall, looking at the curved metal skeletons connecting the roof and the floor around the hall, the rune lights flickering between the skeletons, and the elves and demons shuttling around the hall. Instructors, asked aloud: "How is the situation of the anti-gravity unit?"

The magister in charge of monitoring the anti-gravity unit responded immediately: "The output is stable, and the response rate of the unit is 70.00%, Your Majesty."

70.00%...

1000 years ago it was 80.00%, 5000 years ago it was 90.00%.

This Temple of Stars is a precious legacy passed down from generation to generation by the elves, but the technology for making it has long been lost. Today's silver elves are not even sure whether this floating fortress was designed by the elves themselves, or whether they came from an older place. brought out from the relics——the too long history of the Silver Empire and the chaotic age of the original elves have destroyed too many inherited memories. Everyone says that elves are the most advanced civilization on this continent, but Belsetia I know that the elves are just lying on a piece of advanced ancient relics. These ancient relics are gradually dying, and the silver empire of the elves... is also gradually dying.

When will the Temple of the Stars fall?

The elves of all ages seem to have never considered this point. In their hearts, this ancient and eternal floating fortress seems to never fall, but sitting on the seat of dominion, listening to the old and broken ancient Hearing the sound of the machinery running hard, and hearing the overwhelmed groans from the spirit of the machinery in her nervous system, Belsetia felt that...she might have to think about this issue in her lifetime.

700 years ago, the Silver Empire was able to build a magnificent wall, but just because the last vacuum extraction station was shut down for unknown reasons 200 years ago, it has become very difficult for the elves today to even repair a sentry tower.

As the ruler of the Silver Empire, Belsetia does not want other countries to know about the terrible decline of the Silver Empire, but as a member of the intelligent race in the Loren Continent, she must warn the human nations of a fact:

The magnificent wall probably won't last for many years, and the Silver Empire that once built it... has no ability to repair it.

A personal maid came forward and bent down beside Belsetia's throne: "Your Majesty, you need to take a break."

"Don't worry, the load is low at the moment."

Belsetia waved her hand, then lightly tapped the armrest of the seat on the other side, and then a slightly trembling and distorted synthesized voice sounded in the control hall: "Command input...turn to automatic homing mode... "

A faint tremor came from the entire Temple of Stars. This huge floating fortress left the sky of Gaoling Kingdom and began to slowly fly towards the vast jungle of the Silver Empire. Belsetia adjusted her posture on the seat, Leaning on the backrest and slightly tilting his head to look at his maid: "Do you still have any impression of Uncle Gao Wen?"

The personal maid who grew up with him since she was a child nodded: "At that time, you liked to be by his side very much."

Belsetia laughed: "I followed him to make trouble—in the name of the queen, I forced him to visit the tavern or something."

The time she had been in contact with Gawain Cecil was actually not long - the northern pioneers established a new kingdom in the north of the mainland, and the pioneers who were busy dealing with the wasteland could not have much time to often go to the south of the mainland. The ruler of the Silver Empire, Belsetia didn't have much chance to leave her own country. The only chance for the two sides to get in touch was during several joint actions between humans and elves—including the foundation stone laying and completion ceremony of the magnificent wall, several The signing ceremony of major agreements, etc., but since Belsetia was just a little girl who just sat on the throne at that time and didn't care about anything, the power of the empire was temporarily supervised by several regent princes, so she had enough Time took advantage of every opportunity of exchange activities to run to the camps of several human kingdoms.

The two places she liked to go to most at that time were the residence of the Ansu Kingdom and the residence of the Typhon Kingdom—at that time, Typhon was still one of the many kingdoms in the eastern part of the mainland.

"Do you think the resurrection of Duke Gawain is credible?" the personal maid couldn't help asking, "Although there seems to be evidence to prove that it is true..."

"I believe it's true," Belsetia said softly, "How can a person who has received the blessings of the four elements die so lightly?"

Chapter 0538 Brain-computer interface

Dark Mountains, High Point Observatory.

The telescope group pointing at the majestic wall adjusted a slight angle, and the sky-bright light curtain in the distance reflected a hazy ripple on the lens. Against the background of the light curtain, a thin layer of light floated over the vast black forest and the corrupted plain. The mist, the mist is curling and transpiring, like a layer of ever-changing phantom.

The tall monitor turned around and reported to Gao Wenhui who was standing behind him: "The brightness of the magnificent wall is normal, and the signs of overload have been confirmed to subside."

Hetty and Amber were also at the scene. The former was standing beside Gawain at the moment, but the latter had already got behind the telescope curiously, looking at the barrier in the distance through the lens group, and listening to the monitor's report, Amber followed suit. Yelling: "It really looks like it's back to normal!!"

"It has been more than 48 hours since the barrier was restored, and there was no sign of overload during the period." Hetty looked at Gawain, "The strange whistling sound is gone too—Ancestor, it seems that the wall has been restored."

"Recovery? It won't recover, it will only continue to decline, and now it's just temporarily calming down." Although Gao Wen was also relieved, he didn't dare to be as optimistic as Heidi. It is almost impossible for the countries of the world, even for the elves... I doubt whether they have the ability to build a new sentinel tower now. Now this barrier is temporarily supported, maybe the elves While trying to find a way to use some special means to restart the key system, but the overall decline and damage of the system is an irreversible fact."

Gawain said calmly, the memory from Gawain Cecil showed him this cold fact - according to Gawain Cecil's memory, long before the elves completed the last Sentinel Tower, they were in charge of the barrier The elven magisters who designed it once warned the heads of human countries-the barrier was built using the "ancient relics" of the elves, and its core components are almost irreproducible, and once damaged, they cannot be replaced.

For the past 700 years, this barrier has been sailing on a sea full of storms like a giant ship full of scars and repairs. There are no spare parts, no way out, and there is no port on the vast sea that allows it to dock for repairs. It can only continue to age and damage. Engineers have made one patch after another on its dying engine and cracking shell, but they are only delaying its sinking.

Those who built the barrier back then, and those who experienced the second development, everyone knew this fact, but no one thought that until the barrier reached its limit, people still could not find a way to completely solve the magic tide, and the pollution in the wasteland of Gondor was also It didn't completely dissipate—people didn't even think that this barrier built with the strength of all countries might not even survive the first millennium.

And what's worse... Humans, this short-lived and complex race, have probably forgotten what kind of doomsday is locked inside this wall.

"Continue to monitor and cancel the alarm after 24 hours," Gao Wen made the final decision, "This observation station will be set as a key site, and a shift of manpower will be added to monitor the movement of the magnificent wall in the future."

Hetty bowed her head deeply: "Yes."

Anyway, life goes on.

After returning to the Lord's Mansion, Gao Wen walked into the study room, took out a piece of letter paper from a pile of letterheads, and began to write a letter in his own hand.

Amber leaned over to take a look curiously: "What are you writing?"

Gawain couldn't help but glanced at this half-elf who had no self-consciousness and rules: "Can you be a little disciplined? Although you know me very well, this is at least the secret letter written by the lord himself. Did you come here to read it directly... ..."

Amber waved her hand carelessly: "Hey, I don't know you yet, if this is really a secret letter you don't want to read, you would have slapped me on the wall..."

Gao Wen: "..."

How do you feel that this guy is quite proud of being photographed on the wall?Do you take pride in resisting beatings like Rebecca?

At this time, Amber had already seen the beginning of the letter written by Gawain, and the goose raised its eyebrows and made a surprised voice: "Ah, it was written to Saint-Sunil?"

Gao Wen didn't raise his head: "There is a change in the grand wall, I have to remind them."

Amber had a strange expression on her face. She hesitated for a moment, but she couldn't help but said, "Do you think they will listen to you? They didn't respond much after you reminded them. This time they are fighting a civil war, and I'm afraid no one cares about the South." The voice of the past has passed."

It is true that Cecil has just made a big deal with the Royal Army, and the revived Cecil family has actually returned to Ansu's stage of power, but the "inertia" of the noble circle is a terrible thing. Do you really care about Gao Wen's reminder?

Before the fire burns on their own heads, every nobleman thinks that he is the safest. This is their disposition, and this disposition is determined by the fact of the system of separation and separation.

The rise of the Cecil family may make them pay more attention to every move of Gawain, the powerful duke, but this "emphasis" is more of a kind of vigilance, and it does not mean that they will also pay the same attention to Gawain's statement about the abolition of the Duke. Earth's warning—or rather, it is precisely because of the rise of the Cecil family, and because Cecil has reunified the southern border, that they will be more vigilant and wary of any warnings that Gawain sends to them. A lot of conspiracy theories were made up out of thin air in the warning.

"To be honest, I didn't expect them to care about this," Gawain shook his head when he heard Amber's words, "but this is my responsibility——I am protecting the Duke."

He wrote this letter to fulfill his responsibilities and fulfill his obligations after inheriting the body of Gawain Cecil, but he did not mention another reason: he wanted to ensure that all his actions in the future would be as good as possible. Without leaving a stain, he cannot give future opponents an excuse to attack him.

Amber looked at Gao Wen with weird eyes, she felt that she really couldn't understand the old rice dumpling's thinking - but it didn't matter, this guy was full of weird thoughts, and there were not many people could understand.

If she herself slept in the coffin for 700 years, her brain would probably be worse than Gawain's.

Gawain finished writing the letter, carefully sealed it in a paint tube, sealed it with wax paint, and handed it to Amber who was standing aside: "Send someone to the Rock Fortress, and ask Sir Walder to send someone to the capital. "

"Why don't you just use the magic net to send a copy to Rock Fortress?" Amber asked curiously while taking the letterbox, "This will take many days."

"This kind of letter must be an original copy written by your own hand. This is for safety, and... the Saint-Sunil gang may not approve the duke's seal on the copy," Gao Wen shook his head helplessly, "The government affairs department adapts The file transfer system has been in use for so long, and I'm still not fully used to it, and you can't expect the city of Saint-Sunil to do a better job on this than the Municipal Office."

"Tch...those old stubborn people, compared to them, I think they seem to have been lying in coffins for 700 years."

After thinking about it for a while, Gao Wen felt that there was something wrong with Hu Po's praise, but he couldn't find any fault...

At this moment, the voice of the little maid Betty suddenly came from outside the door, interrupting his conversation with Amber: "Master! Master Pittman is looking for you!"

Gao Wen was startled, then he vaguely guessed something in his mind, and quickly said, "Let him in!"

The door of the study room opened, and the old druid hunched over with a smile on his face walked into the room. The little old man had a smug smile on his face. After entering the door, he said, "Lord——I have brought good news."

"It seems that the test of the nerve cord has been completed?" Gao Wen said with a smile as expected, "It seems that this emergency state of panic has not affected the progress of your research."

"Once the door of the research institute is closed, who cares about the flood outside," Pittman said with a nonchalant expression on his face. "If the researcher doesn't even have this bit of concentration, he might as well go home and plant potatoes as soon as possible."

Immediately afterwards, he paused, and then said: "I have installed the newly-made nerve cord on the equipment that Kamel tossed, do you want to go and have a look?"

"Of course," Gawain suddenly got up, and then looked at Amber, "You too..."

Amber didn't wait for the other party to reach out to clamp herself, and said: "Of course I have to go with you to see - I'm also very curious about the 'psychic network' that you have recently studied!"

Soon, Gao Wen and Amber came to the Institute of Magical Technology. In the laboratory specially set up for "Neural Interaction Connection Technology", the brand new connection device has been placed on the round table in the center of the laboratory.

Kamel and Rebecca stood next to the connecting device, and a dozen technicians in white robes were busy around, checking the condition of the connecting device, or checking the condition of other rune arrays connected to the device.

Even Jenny, who rarely leaves the Rune Academy on weekdays, was there: Although her main focus is not in the application field, she played a pivotal role in analyzing the spells of the Eternal Sleeper and reconstructing the rune array. Naturally, she deserves credit for being able to complete it, and it is only natural for her to inspect the finished product here.

Gawain nodded to Jenny and Kamel, and then his eyes fell on the seat behind Rebecca: "Is this... the finished product?"

The connection device was not quite what he had initially expected - it was not at all a magical device of this era, but more like a future product that spanned time and space. The silver-white cockpit was fixed on a large and stable base, In the second half of the cockpit, the underside of the extended backrest is hollowed out. Several shimmering "pipes" with a texture like metal tendons connect the backrest of the cockpit and the base below. Inside the cockpit, you can see To the streamlined cortical inner lining, there are a large number of metal contacts distributed on the inner lining, and the contacts are connected together, showing the distribution shape of the spine.

Of course, this distinctive shape design cannot be the style of contemporary magicians - obviously, Kamel, a magister from the Gondor Empire, once again used the style in his memory on Cecil's magical creations .

The one that stood out was a magical punk.

What stands out is that the painting style of this thing is different.

Gao Wen didn't care about the style of the painting - anyway, there was nothing in Cecil's land from people to objects that had a normal style of painting - as a pragmatist, he only cared about whether the thing was useful or not.

"We have conducted all the offline tests and part of the online tests - the connection is the magic network communication network," Kamel's body buzzed, and his body was filled with pleasant light blue, which showed that the magician The master is in a good mood, "According to the mind illusion technology of the Eternal Sleeper, we have created a 'connection interface' for this device. This interface can run stably when connected to the Magic Net communication network and protect the user's consciousness."

Pittman added on the sidelines: "I helped make this interface—fortunately, my 'craft' is not new."

Gao Wen knew what Pittman meant by "craft", but Amber was confused: "Craft? What kind of craft? Old man, do you have other crafts besides forgery and fortune-telling?"

"Don't make trouble, old man, I have a lot of skills." Pittman waved his hand, directly ignoring Amber's words, and then pointed to the three "pipes" under the seat, "This is the new nerve cord, which is based on the information you gave me. Made it. To be honest, if I have the chance, I must meet the person who designed it, that is a talent-I never thought that artificial nerve cords could be modified into non-implantable, This requires not only a genius with a sudden inspiration, but also an extreme familiarity with the working process of the nervous system and nerve cords. To be honest, if such a person can join the research institute, it will definitely be more valuable than working alone outside. "

"If a person has been tortured by the sequelae caused by the implanted nerve cord for more than ten years, he will naturally understand the working process of the nerve cord to the extreme." Gao Wen sighed, "Don't worry, with this device, you are very comfortable I will soon have the opportunity to meet the person who developed the non-implanted nerve cord, but I am afraid that he will not have the chance to join our research system—his task is no less important than your research task.”

Chapter 0539 Immersed in the Network

Amber circled around the chair with strange shape and weird painting style, no matter how you looked at it, it was full of suspicious atmosphere, and finally looked at Gawain with suspicious eyes: "You mean, you can use this thing to invade the Eternal Sleeper?" What kind of psychic network?"

Gawain laughed: "It's not just about invading the mind network of the Eternal Sleeper - it's just a connecting device. If we want, we can also use it to form our own 'mind network'. Of course, that will require many, many such Installed."

"It looks weird..." Amber muttered, "It always feels like a sacrificial device in some evil ritual. When you sit on it, it will burst into flames, and then you will be sacrificed to the evil god on the spot."

I don't know where her rich associative ability comes from...

Gao Wen ignored Amber's whispering Bibi beside him, and looked at Pittman: "Is this thing usable now?"

"The human body test for connecting to the magic net has passed - after all, the nerve cord and the communication rune are relatively mature technologies, and there is basically no problem in the 'connection' aspect, but we have not yet conducted the test for connecting to the spiritual network," Peter said. "Connecting to the psychic network ... has additional hazards," Mann said.

Gao Wen knew what the "additional hidden danger" was in Pittman's mouth.

The connection device in front of me can be said to be a black technology level thing on the earth, but in this world it is nothing more than a product assembled with a bunch of mature technologies. Although it is advanced, it is not a high-tech Well, with Pittman, an industry insider, personally controlling the link, the operational risk of this set of equipment itself is actually not high. What really needs to be careful is the exposure risk when using this set of equipment to connect to the spiritual network of the eternal sleeper.

Gao Wen himself was never afraid of being exposed when he connected to the psychic network. This is because he has a "recognition port" (swallowed) that truly belongs to the eternal sleeper, and he later arranged a "legal identity" for himself through brute force cracking and reconstructing the database. ", no matter how the security mechanism of the Eternal Sleeper is upgraded, he is still in the dead corner of the security system, but the device in front of him...can it successfully bypass the security mechanism of the mind network?

Gao Wen once arranged for Daniel to enter the high-level of the Eternal Sleeper, and used this level of authority to establish the entire security mechanism of the mind network, and left a back door in the security mechanism, but so far, there has been no third-party port except himself Tested whether these "backdoors" work.

Although there is no problem in theory, this is the first test after all. Both Pittman and Gao Wen must be cautious at this moment.

Once it fails and the higher-ups of the Eternal Sleeper are aware of this network intrusion, then Gao Wen's various schemes with the help of the spiritual network will be fully exposed, and many risks will inevitably increase suddenly.

Gao Wen slowly scanned the entire laboratory.

In addition to Kamel, Pittman, Rebecca, and Jenny, the "big four" of scientific research, there are more than a dozen researchers here.